The Turkish People React To The Twitter Block...

In the hopes of maintainijng his status quo amidst a plethora of corruption probes and allegations, Turkey's Erdogan has blocked Twitter after pledging to "destroy" the social media platform after troubling leaks occurred appearing to confirm his corruption. As one can imagine, the Turkish people (among others) are not happy...

Until the governments and leaders who are the target of twitter truths, decide that if you talk ill of them, or work around the block, they will hook your nuts up to the nearest electrical outlet. Or feed you to the hungry dogs. Then you might be more willing to comply.

Hahahahahah....you've got to love nerds and geeks. Will he now shutdown celullar phone networks? What about electricity? A certain religious sect in the US tried to pull this trick off with their members and the result was the same: more people went to the internet to check things out and it backlashed on the leadership.

Hey, dumb a$$holes (banksters, politicians, religious sect leaders):

YOU. CANNOT. SHUTDOWN.THE.INTERNET.

WE (THE PEOPLE THAT VOTED YOU) will retaliate. Hard and fast.

This also goes to that Cameron Cunt in the UK. That guy needs to be cock slapped ASAP.

Or fuck twitter and the horse it road in on. The second it became a publically traded company it became compromised only a matter of time now until it becomes a honeypot for agencies like the NSA just like google and facebook are. That is the lifecycle of these things these days.

Time to start migrating away from twitter for real social purposes like what is going on in Turkey and moving to platforms like this.

Miguel Freitas, an engineer based in Rio de Janeiro, has started building a more secure and robust alternative to Twitter, making use of code from two other massively successful online projects: Bitcoin and BitTorrent.

His alternative is called Twister. It’s a decentralized social network that, in theory, can’t be shut down by any one entity. What’s more, Twister is designed to prevent other users from knowing whether you’re online, what your IP address is, or who you follow. You can still post public messages a la Twitter, but when you send direct and private messages to others, they’re protected with the same encryption scheme used by LavaBit, the e-mail provider used by Edward Snowdan.

Freitas and his collaborator Lucas Leal have completed a test version of the app that runs on Android, Linux, and OSX. Freitas has no plan to create a Windows or iPhone version, but since the code is open source, others are free to port the app to additional operating systems.

Other decentralized alternatives to Twitter and Facebook — such as Pump.io, Identica and Diaspora — require that you either operate your own dedicated server or trust someone else to run a server for you. Twister works more like peer-to-peer file sharing software: Launch the app, and it connects with other users. There’s no need for a central server.

It manages this trick through the bitcoin protocol, though not the network that actually drives the digital currency. Basically, the protocol handles user registration and logins. Just as machines — called miners — verify transactions over the bitcoin network to ensure no one double-spends bitcoins and everyone spends only their own coins, a network of Twister computers verifies that user names aren’t registered twice, and that posts attached to a particular user name are really coming from that user.

Posts are handled through the BitTorrent protocol. This lets the system distribute a large number of posts through the network quickly and efficiently, and it lets users receive near-instant notifications about new posts and messages — all without the need for central servers.

Freitas points out that if someone is monitoring your internet traffic — or mass monitoring internet users — they’d still be able to find your IP address, and suggests those looking for additional protection consider the Tor Project‘s anonmity software.

Looks like if you want this generation to get off their fat asses you need to take away their most vapid form of entertainment. I just hope the Turkish people can find someway to occupy themselves besides reading what Kim Kardashian ate for lunch

You dont say, Detective Dipshit? The point is its still passive. Look at the colorful screen and chirping sound as you retweet someones insightful 140 character political commentary. Its like those experiments with the rats who got an injection of dopamine everytime they pushed a button

Blocking twitter wont work. This dictator needs to do it like USA dictators and buy off the MSM and lapdog the press, give tax breaks to all the major info distribution platforms, put braindeadening programming on every TV channel, and give the sheepish populace obamaphones (or in this case ... ankaraphones), EBT cards, and 2 years of free pay to sit on their asses.

So the US gets its panties all in a twist over Russia rather peacefully taking back territory that was historically part of Russia, but allows the dictator of a NATO country to kill democracy without a peep - or a tweet - from the White House or state Dept.

Ah, but even when they're elected, there's always some house-clearing scandal within 18 mos. Berlusconi's been more persistent than most (not that it's a good thing--he's like Italy's Murdoch or Koch). The italians should stick to cooking--God, the food is fabulous there. Maybe they can be administered by the Swiss...

This is actually a very good thing. The precedent set by Turkey will have broad and far-ranging effects on the internet culture.

It's long past time for these telecom and IT companies to realize that they are not in charge, that they are in fact subordinate to the men who hold the real power, the power of decision, command, and force. Ever since the mid-'90s these internet entrepreneurs have acted as if it were nothing less than their God-given right to refashion society any way they pleased, to alter the way people interact and do business, whether these changes were desired or not, whether they were beneficial or not. They raked in huge sums of money, often without a rational business strategy, by selling what amounted to little more than a vision of the future. What's more, they played up the myth of the underdog, acting as if they were setting out to return power to the people by dethroning the established gatekeepers in politics, business, media, and education, twitting the noses of the old guard whose very wealth and stability allowed them to grow in the first place.

The reality could not have been further from the myth. Not only has the spread of the internet failed to check the long, slow economic decline of Western nations, it has allowed precisely those elements of the old regime which were most odious to come to the fore and dominate. I am speaking here of the dehumanization of everyday life, the pseudo-automation of essential societal organs (such as banking) which really require trust and human tact to work normally, and the concentration of wealth in the hands of irresponsible money-pirates who sacrifice the long-term viability of the culture for any immediate windfall. The powers that be foolishly suffered this strange Emersonian Awakening/Rentseeking Psy-op to run its course, much to the detriment of the political economy of this country.

We will shortly have need of strong leaders willing to discipline the international telecoms; this is nothing but a prerequisite to reigning in globalism, which will soon become necessary in any case. The globalist free-money machine must be broken; its powertrain, the internet, decoupled; it's fuel, fiat currency, dried up at the source. Let us hope not to hear any wimpering murmurs about "democracy" and "free speech," for these are always the catchwords on the lips of rebels who, in there boundless lust for power, hope thereby to enflame popular passions against the solid and worthy. This was what they sold you when they proposed an "information superhighway." The NSA and slave labor in China was what you got. It is disingenuous in the extreme for anyone who was once enthusiastic for the internet to complain about its effects, that it has been abused. This sleepless eye, this wealth-sucking squid, is precisely what they wanted; they insisted upon it; they clamored for it with all their lungs.

I welcome this move by soveriegn states to fight back against this beast. The revolution has always been the exploiter of the people. The much-maligned monarch proves in the end their best friend.

Corruption charges are the TPTBs way of regime change without going to war. The TPTB have dirt on everyone. If the TPTB dont like a person. It's their trump card. Ask DSK or Julian Assange. Smearing dirt is the way of getting people. They are all dirty.